[MACEP] ARRL Station Grant and Teacher's Institute

[Jill Mohr]

  Last year I received a $3000 grant from the American Radio Relay 
League (ARRL) for an amateur radio station through their "Big Project" 
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/tbp/ .  They sent our school everything we 
needed to set up an amateur radio station including a Yaesu 
transceiver, antennas, cables, books, power supply, etc.  Our station 
has been up and running with great success.

They also offered a "Teacher's Institute" last summer at their 
headquarters in Conn.  We spent an all-expense paid week (air, hotel, 
meals, etc.) learning about how to teach wireless technology in the 
classroom.  We came home with over $2,000 in parallax robots, basic 
stamps, support books, lesson plans, receiver kits, electronics kits, 
etc.

Both the station grant and the institute are being offer again this 
year.  The application process was very simple.  The excitement and 
learning this program has stimulated in our school has been wonderful.  
If anyone is interested in more information, please feel free to 
contact me.

Jill Mohr
jillmo5 at yahoo.com
Oregon City Schools